Winner of the VISA Cultural Prize and the Icelandic National
Literature Prize.
Single mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical
description is like no other Icelander: so small she
self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned
she doubts her genetic link to her parents, so strange she nearly
believed the children who mistook her for a mythical creature of
the forest. Even as an adult, she struggles to make sense of her
place in the world.
So when she sees how her teenage daughter, Edda, has suffered
since a close friend's drug overdose, Harpa has no choice but to
tear her away from her friends in the city. She enlists the help of
a friend and loads her reprobate daughter and their belongings into
a pickup truck, setting out on a road trip to Iceland's bucolic
eastern fjords.
As they drive through the starkly beautiful landscape, winding
around volcanic peaks, battling fierce windstorms, and forging
ahead to a verdant valley, their personal vulnerabilities feel
somehow less dangerous. The natural world, with all its contrasts,
offers Harpa solace and the chance to reflect on her past in order
to open her heart.
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